What is a cesarean delivery? | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy …
2016年6月1日 · A cesarean delivery is a surgical procedure in which a fetus is delivered through an incision in the mother’s abdomen and uterus.1 We offer more information about cesarean delivery in our Labor and Delivery topic.
What is a C-section? - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National ...
2017年2月20日 · A cesarean delivery, also called a C-section or cesarean birth, is the surgical delivery of a baby through a surgical cut or incision in a woman's abdomen and uterus. After the baby is removed from the womb, the uterus and abdomen are closed with stitches that later dissolve.1 According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, 32% of …
What is vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)? - NICHD
2017年2月23日 · VBAC refers to vaginal delivery of a baby after a previous pregnancy was delivered by cesarean delivery. In the past, pregnant women who had one cesarean delivery would automatically have another. But research shows that, for many women who had prior cesarean deliveries, attempting to give birth vaginally—called a trial of labor after cesarean …
NIH Convenes Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
2010年3月7日 · For decades, doctors thought that a woman who had given birth by cesarean section would have to deliver future babies by another cesarean, which requires an incision in her abdominal wall and uterus. Then in 1980, an NIH Consensus Development Conference panel questioned the necessity of routine repeat cesarean deliveries based on the available ...
Risks From Labor After Prior Cesarean Delivery Low, Study Reports
2004年12月14日 · The risks from vaginal delivery after a prior Cesarean delivery are low, but are slightly higher than for a repeat Cesarean delivery. This finding is from the largest, most comprehensive study of its kind ever conducted, undertaken by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.
Azithromycin pretreatment lowers infection rate after C-section, …
2016年9月29日 · Treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin before an unplanned cesarean delivery reduces the post-operation infection rate by about 50 percent, compared to the standard treatment, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results of the study appear in the September 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Preterm Labor and Birth - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver …
2014年3月5日 · Some late-preterm births result from inducing labor or having a cesarean delivery even though there is not a medical reason to do so, even though this practice is not recommended. Research indicates that even babies born at 37 or 38 weeks of pregnancy are at higher risk for poor health outcomes than are babies born at 39 weeks of pregnancy or ...
Labor and Delivery - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National …
2017年8月22日 · Cesarean delivery could help prevent transmission of the virus to the infant. The mother has a specific medical condition. A cesarean delivery enables the health care provider to better manage the mother's health issues. Women who have a cesarean delivery may be given pain medication with an epidural block, a spinal block, or general anesthesia.
C-Sections Before Labor & Rupture of Membranes Reduce the …
The largest, most comprehensive analysis of its kind has found that pregnant women infected with HIV can reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to their infants by about 50 percent if they deliver by elective cesarean section--before they have gone into labor and before their membranes have ruptured, according to a study led by a researcher at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National …
Release: Tranexamic acid does not appear to prevent maternal
2023年4月12日 · Tranexamic acid appears no more effective than placebo in reducing the need for blood transfusion or preventing maternal death in patients with increased risk for excessive bleeding because of cesarean delivery, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Tranexamic acid slows the natural breakdown of blood clots and was considered …